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Biopolitics, militarism, and development : Eritrea in the twenty-first century
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ISBN: 1282627570 9786612627576 1845458982 1845455673 0857452894 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Bringing together original, contemporary ethnographic research on the Northeast African state of Eritrea, this book shows how biopolitics - the state-led deployment of disciplinary technologies on individuals and population groups - is assuming particular forms in the twenty-first century. Once hailed as the "African country that works," Eritrea's apparently successful post-independence development has since lapsed into economic crisis and severe human rights violations. This is due not only to the border war with Ethiopia that began in 1998, but is also the result of discernible tendencies in

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Nation-building --- Biopolitics --- Economic development --- History --- Eritrea --- Politics and government --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Political behavior --- Human behavior --- Political science --- Sociobiology --- Stabilization and reconstruction (International relations) --- State-building --- Political development --- ʼArtrā --- Colonia Eritrea --- Dawlat Iritriyā --- Država Eritreja --- Dŭrzhava Eritrei︠a︡ --- Eartra --- Eiritré --- ʼÉretrā --- Èritrê --- Eritrea Riik --- Eritreako Estatua --- Ėritreĭ --- Eritrei︠a︡ --- Ėritreĭmudin Orn --- Ėritreĭy Paddzakhad --- Eritreja --- Eritrejský stát --- Eritreo --- Eritreya --- Eritreya Dövläti --- Ērtra --- Erythraia --- Érythrée --- Ėrytrėi︠a︡ --- Estado de Eritrea --- État d'Érythrée --- Government of the State of Eritrea --- GSE (Government of the State of Eritrea) --- Gwladwriaeth Eritrea --- Hagärä Ertra --- Hagere Ērtra --- Iritīriyā --- Iritriyā --- Kratos tēs Erythraias --- Provisional Government of Eritrea --- République d'Érythrée --- Staat Eritrea --- Stàir Eartra --- Stát na hEiritré --- State of Eritrea --- Stato dell' Eritrea --- Staturin Eritrea --- Steat Eritrea --- Κράτος της Ερυθραίας --- Ερυθραία --- Эрытрэя --- Эритрей --- Эритрейы Паддзахад --- Эритреймудин Орн --- Държава Еритрея --- Еритрея --- إرتريا --- إرتيريا --- دولة إرتريا --- Eritrea (Ethiopia)

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